Punjabi varsity to start courses to train students for armed forces

Tribune News Service

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Patiala, November 1

Punjabi University may soon start short-term orientation courses to train its students to join various wings of the Indian armed forces, including the Indian Air Force, Army, and Navy.

University’s Vice-Chancellor Dr BS Ghuman made this announcement while interacting with a team of IAF officers and university students during the Induction Publicity Exhibition Vehicle (IPEV) road drive of the Indian Air Force on the Punjabi University campus here today.

Prof Ghuman asked director of the placement cell Dr AK Dham and his deputy Dr Balraj Singh Saini to explore the possibilities of including such courses, carrying nobility of cause and utmost excitement, besides much higher pay and perks as compared to top-ranked companies visiting the university for their placement drives. This will follow the earlier planned IELTS and TOEFL courses, which will be started in the university’s IAS and Allied Services Training Centre.

Wing Commander Anish Kohli addressed the students and exposed them, along with the Vice-Chancellor, to hands-on driving experience while sitting in the fighter plane-simulated cockpit of the IPEV.?

Kohli said the government should have no hesitation to agree to the proposal of the university in case the latter showed its keenness to start such courses. Such courses would carry huge benefits for the students as there were only a few government academies for grooming aspirants to join the Indian armed forces.

The students, who gathered in a large number in the science auditorium of the university, were shown two short films to motivate them to join a profession where job excitement was a privilege par excellence.  They were also introduced to various aspects and prerequisites to enter into a career which was not “only a way of life but larger than life”.